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Live: Declining cases numbers 'good news' but drop gradual amid high hospitalisations

Case numbers and hospitalisations declining but long tail coming.

Who might be the next Ashley Bloomfield, and why they won't face the same scrutiny

The next director-general of health will have a very different role to Bloomfield's.

Three-strikes law: Offender fails in sentence delay

Offender on third strike denied delay of sentencing until after three strikes law repeal.

The long, dark history of a Māngere boarding house where a tenant died on Sunday

A homicide was the latest in a series of violent events at the Māngere boarding house.

Eric Crampton: Council carbon counsel

OPINION: Councils can only do so much in dealing with carbon emissions.

Thomas Coughlan: Treaty bubbling into Three Waters debate

OPINION: Labour faces an electoral challenge over its co-governance reforms.

Government to privatise science business

Staff at the scientific lens-maker don't want to work on weapons of war.

Leaked memo raises questions over Ministry of Health's daily case numbers

We don't really know the number of community cases, people aren't recording their results.

Exodus: Two more top health bosses quitting as Bloomfield resigns

Burnout from Covid response believed to be behind public health leadership exodus.

Sasha Borissenko: How Dr Moana Jackson changed Pākehā hearts and minds

Remembering "a gentle giant, fierce advocate and great legal revolutionaries".

8810 new Covid cases, 18 deaths - including person in their 30s

New Zealand experienced its deadliest seven days of the pandemic this week.

Age divide emerges in vaccine mandate removal poll

About 1000 New Zealanders across all age groups took part in the poll.

Managing MPs: The 'staff' you can't fire - even for 'being bullies or creeps'

"We had a pretty unhealthy culture within the building," Speaker Trevor Mallard says.

NZ's deadliest week: 23 new Covid deaths, 104 so far this week

More than 350 people have now died with Covid-19 in New Zealand.

Three protests planned for Wellington, police to have strong presence

Police say they are ready to act as three different protests are planned for the capital.

Exclusive: 'When I woke she was gone' - her newborn girl was taken 57 years ago; finally, an apology

Maggie Wilkinson has received an historic settlement and in-person apology.

Derek Cheng: Why Auckland could be in an orange halo next week

The key question is how much more pressure will no limits on indoor gatherings bring.

Policing of anti-mandate protest cost more than $430k, excluding wages

Hundreds of police officers were sent to Wellington as part of "Operation Convoy".